What's the difference between badder and worse?

Badder


Definition:

  • () compar. of Bad, a.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That the Rangers left Los Angeles without a win is hard to believe, considering the series of two goal leads the team had (four) over the first pair of games, and considering just how well the underdog New Yorkers played against the bigger, badder and better Kings.
  • (2) No spoilers, but I think JR just might be back – and badder than ever.
  • (3) I have met people here whose crimes are a lot badder with way less time.” Senior officials at Angola prison refused to allow the Guardian to speak to Jackson, on grounds that it might upset his victims – even though his crime was victim-less.
  • (4) Yet those uppity corporations have only grown bigger and badder.
  • (5) There are echoes of Gaddafi in the personality cult surrounding al-Assad, but Syria's political and security apparatus is bigger and badder than anything Gaddafi could muster.
  • (6) Morgan says the work that means most to him is one of his lesser-known pieces, Longford, about the relationship between Christian do-gooder Lord Longford and child-killing do-badder Myra Hindley.
  • (7) France's sudden military intervention in Mali was bigger and badder than anyone anticipated, and in three short weeks French troops – with a bit of help from their Malian counterparts – have not only halted the rebel advance but rolled back almost all their gains, retaking the northern cities of Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal.
  • (8) Without a label to influence her or sales to worry about, it will be interesting to see what kind of rawer, badder music she might be performing live these days (the inclusion of a cover of Nirvana's Territorial Pissings on Loveless's setlist makes this question all the more interesting).
  • (9) 5.29pm BST Diana Badder mails with some more thoughts on the fallen champion.

Worse


Definition:

  • (compar.) Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense.
  • (n.) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
  • (n.) That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
  • (a.) In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
  • (v. t.) To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
  • (2) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
  • (3) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
  • (4) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (5) Their adaptive problems became worse while growing older until the age of 20.
  • (6) One patient had amelioration of his symptoms, 5 experienced no change and in 5 their symptoms became worse.
  • (7) Visual acuity was improved in 77%, was worse in 13%, and unchanged in 10% of eyes.
  • (8) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
  • (9) We wanted to return to Kabul, but the violence there just kept getting worse.
  • (10) Patients with grade 2 carcinoma could be separated into one subgroup with small nuclei (mean nuclear area less than or equal to 95 microns2) having a favorable outcome (5-year survival rate: 100%), and into another subgroup with large nuclei (mean nuclear area greater than 95 microns2) showing a worse prognosis (5-year survival rate: 63.2%) (Mantel-Cox, P = .01).
  • (11) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
  • (12) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
  • (13) Wearing down women’s resistance has become eroticised – and, worse, normalised.
  • (14) He also noted that an earlier message from another person was far worse.
  • (15) But over-promising has left him in a worse position with all three than he was in before, and with his credibility in tatters.
  • (16) With low grade astrocytomas, survival beyond 4 years was significantly worse (higher death rates) in the group receiving more than 1400 rets.
  • (17) The sensitivity is, now that this is official, it will make things worse.” Like Australia, Canada weathered the financial crash of 2008 well, avoiding the banking crises suffered by the US, UK and the eurozone, instead growing fast on the back of exports of abundant natural resources.
  • (18) "It would be ridiculous to encourage shale gas when in reality its greenhouse gas footprint could be as bad as or worse than coal.
  • (19) During this period, however, the cows were housed in a stable with markedly worse environmental circumstance than those in production stable.
  • (20) With cisapride, 12 patients felt better and three worse (p less than 0.05); physicians judged 11 patients improved and two worse (p less than 0.05).

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